US-France Cooperative Research: Collaborative Studies of of Industrial Productivity

该奖项将支持持续的合作研究， 哈佛的兹维·格里利切斯博士 University and Dr. Jacques Mairesse，Ecole des Hautes Etudes en 社会科学（EHESS）和国立高等教育学院 de l 'Administration Economique（ENSAE），巴黎，法国。 的 国家经济研究局，在博士的指导下。 格里利切斯一直在这一领域进行一项重大研究， 在NSF的支持下，持续了几年。 Griliches博士和Maireesse博士迄今为止的联合研究 主要集中在两个方面： 面板分析中的生产率增长和计量问题 数据 他们现在将扩展到第三个领域： 公司和行业一级的产量和价格作为先决条件 正确理解生产力的变化。 在 他们研究的第一个领域是研发支出的影响 美国企业的生产率增长，法国，日本， 还比较了法国和法国企业的增长模式， 这导致了一项主要的研究， 日本和美国制造业的研发增长和回报， 两个平行的研究个别企业增长在美国和 法国分别。 本奖项将允许 调查人员扩大和更新他们的日本制造业 使用更新和更广泛的数据进行研究。 他们还计划 延长美国早期的-日本比较，包括直接 与法国公司的类似结果进行比较。 其他主题 研究将是1）产量和价格的测量2）分析 专利数据使用欧洲的数据，其更新率，以推断 专利的私人价值的过时率 知识，以及这些价值的大小和分布。 两 Griliches博士和Mairesse博士是这方面备受推崇的专家。 经济学研究领域。

This award will support continued collaborative research on the topic of industrial productivity between Dr. Zvi Griliches, Harvard University and Dr. Jacques Mairesse, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE), Paris, France. The National Bureau of Economic Research, under the direction of Dr. Griliches, has been conducting a major study in this area for the last several years with support from NSF. Joint research to date between Dr. Griliches and Dr. Mairesse has concentrated on two major topics: comparative studies of productivity growth and econometric issues in the analysis of panel data. They will now expand into a third area: the measurement of output and prices at the firm and industry level as a prerequisite for the correct understanding of movements in productivity. In the first area they have been studying the impact of R&D expenditures on productivity growth of firms in the U.S., France, and Japan, and also comparing the patterns of growth of firms in both France and the U.S. This has resulted in a major study comparing productivity growth and returns to R&D in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing and two parallel studies of individual firm growth in the U.S. and France respectively. The present award will allow the investigators to expand and update their Japanese manufacturing study using newer and more extensive data. They also plan to extend the earlier U.S.-Japan comparison to include a direct comparison to similar results for French firms. Additional topics of study will be 1) measurement of output and prices 2) analysis of patent data using European data on their renewal rates to infer both the rates of obsolescence in the private value of patented knowledge, and the magnitude and distribution of such values. Both Dr. Griliches and Dr. Mairesse are highly regarded experts in this area of economics research.